Sunday, January 30, 2005
Adventure 3 - 31st January 2005
Phew a whole month over , won't be long 'til christmas is upon us again...
Tried getting in to the backup server to have a look at some of the new SVM stuff but no luck.
Last week was pretty busy, what with the grand master saying "..so how's it going.." every five minutes, Quiet Rob, saying things that no one could hear and Invisible Dave making a rare appearance, that's without doing any work !!!
Silver Fox, showed up on numerous occaisions, either in person or by phone, "Fag ?" his main contributions to proceedings, accompanied by my rather weak "..yeah go on then..."
Monday: Not much to report, fiddle about with the SVM, setting up the volumes and testing the snapshots, Quiet Rob, was impressed by it's flexibility, something he really shouldn't do, still we managed to bend the box back again, so no one would notice ;-)
Tuesday: Still not much to report, helped out a bit with Alex's Microshaft project, which took some of the time, still had to fill the day though...
Wednesday: My sickness on Tuesday night hampered things a bit, meant I couldn't really go to work on Wednesday, which was a bind (as I'm sure you can imagine), the world of witchcraft and wizardry would have to cope without me unfortunately for one day which they did..
Thursday: Back to work, all was quiet, Alex Brent's car was in for a service and the tumbleweeds were rolling around the Inferior Structure Arsing about department. Harry was in and out, at meetings, would rush back say something really profound like "can you phone Rich-ard" (one of the Pir-ate consultants working on inactive directory, (they love to rub it in consultants don't they...while I'm there why do they all have names like Rich and Rob...just taking the piss if you ask me...) , "ask him, err about...err he wanted to know how many beans made five...", well it was something like that, I really don't understand this wizardry lark, I mean how can they utter so many words and form what seem like constructive sentances and yet say so little ? When they've finished speaking you're actually worse off than you were before they started, coz now not only do I not know what the hell they actually just asked me to do, I've spent so long trying to work out what the hell they actually said, I've forgotten what I was doing in the first place...aaarrggghhh
The Skunk man (Rebel Mc) wasn't anywhere to be seen, except on Thursday (I think) when he followed me up the stairs and said "mornin' mate", then wasn't to be seen anywhere....
On my walk in there's some characters, arranged in an almost medieval order of hierarchy…the first office within the office that is the first floor at the back of the office (anyone want to lie down yet ?)…there’s the IT director, well acting IT Director Chris…T (well I think he thinks he’s god or something, the only way he’d be able to get away with that hair do if you ask me (someone went mad with the bril cream this morning didn’t they ??;-)) until they give his company all the IT services on a platter then he really will be the IT Director, in any case so far no moves have been made (that I know about)…Next up the Skunk man (rebel MC), my boss of bosses, note to self, you are a worthless surf and have at least two bosses that you know about, in fact you are so worthless, you’re lucky we even told you you had one boss, but…I digress….
Next up Relationships manager, seems to me like he’s managing his relationships pretty well, a string of slightly older than they’re trying to be women, with skirts and blouses far to tight, seem to come and go from his office and he’s always got a smile on his face (proof if any were needed in my book)… I mean this job is about, the inter relationship between the business and IT, well that’s working real well at the moment isn’t it ? Surely if the business thinks IT is crap and we should outsource it, then he’s failed, no ?....anyhow I’m forgetting our other made up job, Security Manager…you’d think he’d at least walk around with one of those curly wire jobs like they do in the FBI, but no…not particularly technical, like his predecessor, so again, not sure what the function of the job is….
Then we have empty office …now this guy is really good, he manages to manage nothing and never come in fantastic..sounds like my type of job…
Friday: Least said the better, did far too much work on writing the scripts, gotta do documentation next week…then the phone rings it is the Silver Fox and he utters that word…”Fag ?...” thinking in on my feet as usual I profoundly say…”yeah go on then…”
Saturday: Went swimming, really wasn’t looking forward to it..but it was good fun in the end. Then we went out for a meal with our friends… turned up at the pub where they’d booked a table, got drink sat down, then they announce that there wasn’t really anything they fancied…so we snuck out and went to a different one…
Sunday: sodded about trying to convert a film to DVD, which worked in the end, then the new downstairs loo sink beckoned, fitted that to the wall and managed to connect it all up (no leaks !!! So far!!!!), only to find that the waste was the wrong size doh !...so I’m writing this now, another week at wonderful work beckons, can’t bloody wait..
Tried getting in to the backup server to have a look at some of the new SVM stuff but no luck.
Last week was pretty busy, what with the grand master saying "..so how's it going.." every five minutes, Quiet Rob, saying things that no one could hear and Invisible Dave making a rare appearance, that's without doing any work !!!
Silver Fox, showed up on numerous occaisions, either in person or by phone, "Fag ?" his main contributions to proceedings, accompanied by my rather weak "..yeah go on then..."
Monday: Not much to report, fiddle about with the SVM, setting up the volumes and testing the snapshots, Quiet Rob, was impressed by it's flexibility, something he really shouldn't do, still we managed to bend the box back again, so no one would notice ;-)
Tuesday: Still not much to report, helped out a bit with Alex's Microshaft project, which took some of the time, still had to fill the day though...
Wednesday: My sickness on Tuesday night hampered things a bit, meant I couldn't really go to work on Wednesday, which was a bind (as I'm sure you can imagine), the world of witchcraft and wizardry would have to cope without me unfortunately for one day which they did..
Thursday: Back to work, all was quiet, Alex Brent's car was in for a service and the tumbleweeds were rolling around the Inferior Structure Arsing about department. Harry was in and out, at meetings, would rush back say something really profound like "can you phone Rich-ard" (one of the Pir-ate consultants working on inactive directory, (they love to rub it in consultants don't they...while I'm there why do they all have names like Rich and Rob...just taking the piss if you ask me...) , "ask him, err about...err he wanted to know how many beans made five...", well it was something like that, I really don't understand this wizardry lark, I mean how can they utter so many words and form what seem like constructive sentances and yet say so little ? When they've finished speaking you're actually worse off than you were before they started, coz now not only do I not know what the hell they actually just asked me to do, I've spent so long trying to work out what the hell they actually said, I've forgotten what I was doing in the first place...aaarrggghhh
The Skunk man (Rebel Mc) wasn't anywhere to be seen, except on Thursday (I think) when he followed me up the stairs and said "mornin' mate", then wasn't to be seen anywhere....
On my walk in there's some characters, arranged in an almost medieval order of hierarchy…the first office within the office that is the first floor at the back of the office (anyone want to lie down yet ?)…there’s the IT director, well acting IT Director Chris…T (well I think he thinks he’s god or something, the only way he’d be able to get away with that hair do if you ask me (someone went mad with the bril cream this morning didn’t they ??;-)) until they give his company all the IT services on a platter then he really will be the IT Director, in any case so far no moves have been made (that I know about)…Next up the Skunk man (rebel MC), my boss of bosses, note to self, you are a worthless surf and have at least two bosses that you know about, in fact you are so worthless, you’re lucky we even told you you had one boss, but…I digress….
Next up Relationships manager, seems to me like he’s managing his relationships pretty well, a string of slightly older than they’re trying to be women, with skirts and blouses far to tight, seem to come and go from his office and he’s always got a smile on his face (proof if any were needed in my book)… I mean this job is about, the inter relationship between the business and IT, well that’s working real well at the moment isn’t it ? Surely if the business thinks IT is crap and we should outsource it, then he’s failed, no ?....anyhow I’m forgetting our other made up job, Security Manager…you’d think he’d at least walk around with one of those curly wire jobs like they do in the FBI, but no…not particularly technical, like his predecessor, so again, not sure what the function of the job is….
Then we have empty office …now this guy is really good, he manages to manage nothing and never come in fantastic..sounds like my type of job…
Friday: Least said the better, did far too much work on writing the scripts, gotta do documentation next week…then the phone rings it is the Silver Fox and he utters that word…”Fag ?...” thinking in on my feet as usual I profoundly say…”yeah go on then…”
Saturday: Went swimming, really wasn’t looking forward to it..but it was good fun in the end. Then we went out for a meal with our friends… turned up at the pub where they’d booked a table, got drink sat down, then they announce that there wasn’t really anything they fancied…so we snuck out and went to a different one…
Sunday: sodded about trying to convert a film to DVD, which worked in the end, then the new downstairs loo sink beckoned, fitted that to the wall and managed to connect it all up (no leaks !!! So far!!!!), only to find that the waste was the wrong size doh !...so I’m writing this now, another week at wonderful work beckons, can’t bloody wait..
# posted by cre8 @ 4:27 PM 
